Cultivation of the nine houses.

The daoists over 35,000 or was it 45,000 years ago?

"Brain exercise."

Ni ne compartments, in the brain.  Add up each "3" in any way and what number always is?  15.

Dugway, where the "bios-scientists" that worked there would, upon sitting, not be able to get up again.  Their bones disintegrated, literally.

Pe rhaps there are better protections these days?  Don't think the US military cares one iota about how the "offer" for the experiments ware.

Would not want to be anywhere near "Dugway."  Sorry Chet.

There is no "science" without the human brain.  The human brain cannot be the creator of the "science," when there is yet the "creator" of the brains and science.

I graduate in two months with a bachelor's degree in biotechnology.  I live only a couple hours from Dugway, where the U.S. tested its first biological weapons.  I feel sufficiently informed on this topic to give an educated opinion.
Gene therapy happens today.  (Find a scientific paper at http://bit.ly/AseVav describing a successful experiment that allowed color-blind monkeys to see in color.)  With further research, it may be possible to amp up various chemicals in the brain that cause specific emotions, but you could never control someone's actions through DNA manipulation.  It does not matter how well we understand brain cells and how they interact with each other.  Specific mind control - getting someone to slap their own face at the press of a button, for example - will never happen with DNA.  If you don't believe this, then you don't understand DNA.  
The powers of synthetic biology are not yet understood fully.  Tools and techniques have yet to be developed.  We may one day be able to plant seeds that grow telephone poles or even chicken nuggets.  But we will never have mind control by altering someone's DNA.  It is not within the scope of possible applications.  In a similar way, computer programs can solve our problems, remind us of important events, and can even help me communicate with you.  But no computer program ever written will be able to take my house to the moon.  While I can go to the moon, it will be not be a computer program that gets me there.  It will be a rocket.
The dangers of bioterrorism are more akin to the flu, anthrax, or even the Black Death.  Bioterrorism has very little to do with synthetic biology and has been practiced since the middle ages by throwing diseased corpses into besieged castles.  
I'm not so naive to believe that synthetic biology has no potential malefactors.  I know it is possible to modify a virus or bacterium to cause a new disease in humans.  I also know that it would be much easier to use smallpox as a weapon than to create a new bug.  I also believe that biotechnologies will do infinitely more to benefit society than to harm it.

All of us will soon live in bio-synthetic world and turn into a sleep regime at night. Just like computer "does".))